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House of a thousand lies
via MetaFilter by CheeseDigestsAll on January 23, 2008
While it may be old news the US was drawn into the Iraq War under false pretenses, a new report by the Center for Public Integrity documents 935 specific falsehoods in public statements by eight white house officials: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Wolfowitz,Fleischer and McClellan. At the center of the report is a database of 380000 words of testimony on Iraq. A search for the phrase...
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The Notes of a Japanese prisoner in the USSR
via MetaFilter by tellurian on February 06, 2008
Kiuchi Nobuo - a Japanese airman in World War II, was captured and sent to a prison camp in the Ukraine. He tells his story with drawings.
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Secret Military Patches
via MetaFilter by Miko on February 07, 2008
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me is a new book by author and interesting person TrevorPaglen. He collects patches designed by military personnel to commemorate secret "black-ops" projects.
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Bootleg Woody Guthrie concert restored
via MetaFilter by dylanjames on February 09, 2008
... a small, heavy package wrapped in brown paper arrived in the mail at the Woody Guthrie Archives in New York City. Inside was a mess of wires.It wasn't a bomb - it turned out to be the only live recording of Woody Guthrie known to exist. The wire was fragile, bent, stretched and twisted. Jamie Howarth applied some algorithms he had developed to restore old recordings, and the result has...
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Lego Eddie Izzard
via MetaFilter by jonson on February 08, 2008
Lego Eddie Izzard (full set here).
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Drinking songs
via MetaFilter by cog_nate on February 06, 2008
Drinking Songs & Barroom-lore is an unbelievable collection of audio , textual and other materials related to "traditional drinking songs (many bawdy), toasts, recitations and other bar-room folklore." If that's not enough, check out ARRR!!!'s sea shanties and drinking songs and/or Barstool Mountain's Top 100 Drinking Songs. Still not enough? Well, OK. Collections of songs:A select...
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Roy Scheider, RIP
via MetaFilter by incomple on February 11, 2008
Roy Scheider, rest in peace.
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DAMMIT!
via MetaFilter by jbickers on February 13, 2008
Think you've had clumsy moments? Ten bucks says you've never had one quite this bad.
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